A time gone by. Or, bye bye. Bet it was pretty ta see folks with horses by the tracks.
Folks wantin’ ta ride here never were a problem. Longs I can remember ya had to go to the south west corner of Norfolk. That’s where the N&W station was. Been in it a couple times, fifties flavor to it. Cinder block ‘n tile, vendin’ area ‘n a news stand. Ya could get there by bus. Heck, back then ya could get anywhere by bus ‘n didn’t have ta walk more’n a block from home ta catch it.
Problem we got now is this ‘Wave’ thing Norfolk is startin’. Mass transit. Got this Silverleaf Station I’m payin’ for a quarter mile from here. Built like an old train station. Really very attractive but out of place. Folks can park there ‘n ride a bus ta where they’re goin’ ta work. Ain’t never half full. The Wave is a commuter train thing no one in any significant number is gonna ride. Uses the old Norfolk ‘n Southern tracks from the real downtown to the ocean front. Duh beach has already paved over the tracks in places.
Norfolk is gonna be runnin’ it from a park ‘n ride they have planned right at the city line to downtown with, I think, four stops in between. They’ll take a Moose Lodge my father used to frequent ‘n a few houses via eminent domain for the parkin’ lot. Now that the project has started, duh beach is interested in joinin’ in, again. The concept has been on local referendums three times ‘n soundly defeated each time. Won’t help with the traffic problem, only the ‘green’ dreamers think it will. They’re gonna do it anyway.